Andy Kelly

Andy Kelly

Date of birth:	(1968-06-06) June 6, 1968
Place of birth:	Dayton, Tennessee
Career information
Position(s):	Quarterback
Height:	6 ft 3 in (1.91 m)
College:	Tennessee
Organizations
As player:
1993-1996 1996 1997-2001 2002 2003-2004 2005 2006 2006 2007	Charlotte Rage Rhein Fire Nashville Kats Dallas Desperados Detroit Fury New Orleans VooDoo Kansas City Brigade Utah Blaze New Orleans Voodoo

Andy Kelly (born June 6, 1968) is a former American football quarterback in the Arena Football League. He played in the AFL for fifteen seasons. He also played for two seasons for the Rhein Fire of the former World League of American Football.

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High school career

Kelly attended Rhea County High School in Evensville, Tennessee. While attending, he won Gatorade All-America honors in football as a senior.

College career

Kelly was a successful collegiate quarterback at the University of Tennessee from 1988-1991. He took over as a starter for Sterling Henton in the 1989 SEC game against the Alabama Crimson Tide. He set numerous Tennessee and SEC passing records, most of them broken by his later successor at Tennessee, Peyton Manning. He was also drafted to play baseball with the Atlanta Braves, but never actually did so.

Professional career

Kelly's predominant professional football career was as an Arena Football League quarterback playing some of his career with the with the New Orleans VooDoo, for whom he played for in 2005 and 2007. He previously played for the Charlotte Rage (1993, 1995–96), Nashville Kats (1997–2001), Dallas Desperados (2002), Detroit Fury (2003–2004), Kansas City Brigade (2006) and Utah Blaze (2006). At the end of the 2006 season, he held several all-time AFL career records, including touchdown passes (767), passing yards (39,948), pass attempts (5,827), pass completions (3,621), and interceptions (155).

On Friday, April 27, 2007, in a 72-57 home loss to division-mate Georgia, Kelly joined Aaron Garcia, Clint Dolezel, and Sherdrick Bonner as the only quarterbacks in football history to throw 800 career touchdowns.

On December 6, 2007, Kelly was named the head coach of the proposed new All American Football League's Tennessee team. The league suspended operations March 12, 2008 (permanently, as things later developed, although only a delay was announced at the time), and Kelly signed with the Georgia Force two weeks later on March 26, 2008, but never participated as an active player for the Force. Kelly retired as an Arena Football player following the 2008 season and currently serves as a commentator on Tennessee Volunteers football radio broadcasts.

Statistics

Year	Comp.	Att.	Comp%	Yards	TD's	INT's	Rating
1993	178	332	53.6	2139	34	15	80.3
1995	95	166	57.2	1004	16	8	78.9
1996	58	94	61.7	671	8	1	100
1997	309	497	62.2	3821	82	14	113.7
1998	315	518	60.8	3537	73	12	106.7
1999	324	501	64.7	3609	67	11	110.2
2000	283	429	66	3107	55	10	109.5
2001	230	382	60.2	2699	47	7	104.8
2002	319	511	62.4	3295	73	16	105.4
2003	392	654	59.9	3967	92	20	99.7
2004	360	587	61.3	4184	73	12	105.4
2005	466	700	66.6	4657	96	12	112.4
2006 (Utah Blaze)	115	162	71	1402	27	4	126.5
2006 (Kansas City Brigade)	177	294	60.2	1856	24	13	80.5
2007	265	397	66.8	2571	42	9	101.7
Career Statistics	3886	6224	62.4	42519	809	164	104

External links

• Andy Kelly at ArenaFan Online
• Andy Kelly's NFL Europe Stats at The Football Database

References

Preceded by Jeff Francis

Tennessee Volunteers Starting Quarterbacks 1989-1991

Succeeded by Heath Shuler

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